Wed Sep 14, 2022 – 8:50 pm EDT
MIAMI (LifeSiteNews) – A leading corporate activist warned Sunday of the power that leftist groups wield by using big business as the “back door” through which they push their woke agenda.
While the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investment “dictates of the Davos crowd” — that is, the World Economic Forum — may be “ridiculous,” they “rule much of society,” said Justin Danhof, head of corporate governance at Strive Asset Management, at this year’s National Conservatism conference.
ESG scores are designed to promote investment in companies that advance left-wing “social justice” goals, including racial “equity,” abortion access, and “green energy.”
Danhof, however, framed ESG more generally as “whatever [a] leftist interest group is trying to achieve in society by using big business as a vehicle.”
“Why do they use big business as the vehicle? It’s because whatever they can’t get through their front door — through the courts, through the legislatures — they get through the back door, through corporate America to affect business culture, which then permeates the rest of American culture,” Danhof explained.
He cited as examples of this “backdoor” approach a few ways in which
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